Friday, 1 April 2016

Forge World Announces New Product Line - Warhammer Infinites

In a latest bid to further invest players in the Horus Heresy series, Forge World has announced its upcoming Warhammer Infinites books. Intended to serve in a similar role to the classic Imperial Armour books, these are intended to be equal parts campaign saga and army book, but with a unique twist. Rather than further expanding upon the Great Crusade or Unification Wars specifically, as many had suspected, fans were instead overjoyed to learn that this was to be an alternate universe series.The books listed so far will explore a number of possible theories surrounding the Heresy, focusing either upon key single events such as the loyalists successfully holding Mars to key figures completely reshaping the story. The first in this series is set to examine the idea of Nathaniel Garro turning traitor with the rest of his legion and robbing the Imperium of an early warning, and will directly involve the missing primarchs. Many ambitious stories will follow other possibilities, most notably a rather tasty concept involving the Emperor allying himself with the Chaos Gods, ascending with them and forcing the majority of the Malcador led primarchs to halt his mad rampage. Others hinted involve Ulthwe directly intervening during the Battle of Terra, and a time travelling expedition of the Tau Empire appearing during the Battle at the Phall System.Unveiling their road-map for the next hundred releases, Forge World accidentally let slip the finale to this entire gambit, where each time-line would eventually coalesce into a single event. Titled Crisis of Infinite Heresies, the story will introduce the corrupted spirit of Ferrus Manus and his attempts to annihilate all of time and space. Now surgically fixed onto Vulkan's body and naming himself Ferrus Caput, he seeks to end everything and start over with himself as the new Emperor, erasing all prior Imperfections in the canon. The book will see the creation of the League of Extraordinary Lokens and the all powerful Ultramarine Corps led by the Guillimans of the Universe. This will then lead into the event Zero Terra, during which an enraged and super-powered Cato Sicarius will seek to punch the walls of the Warp.Further individual books are planned for the xenos species, devoting entire volumes to one faction after another; ideas will range from the Tyranid Hive Fleets consuming all of the Sisters of Battle and promptly becoming devout servants of the God-Emperor to the Dark Elder entering rehab en mass. As ever though, the core stories will focus exclusively upon the Imperium of Man.Expect further news as this story develops.

Hah, sorry, didn't mean to get your hopes up that high. Did re-do this to make it a lot more ridiculous after realising how cruel it would be to make something which sounded so genuine and crush the hopes of so many fans.

Sorry about that, though in all honesty I had to throw in the other bits because too many people would buy into it otherwise. Honestly, without the re-write turning Ferrus into the 40K Anti-Monitor, it sounded far, far too much like an actual Forge World project.

Hey, if you want more, as the comment below says there's a great fan project called the Dornian Heresy which is basically a 40K mirror universe. It's sadly going to be left incomplete, but what's there is pretty damn great.

God fucking damn it. I was reading this and just becoming MORE AND MORE HYPED. Like, my levels of excitement for this new line, featuring the missing Primarchs, and respinning old lore, was reaching a truly fevered pitch. And then I read this line:

"the story will introduce the corrupted spirit of Ferrus Manus and his attempts to annihilate all of time and space"

And I RE-REMEMBERED *yesterday* had been April Fools. Fuck my life. I feel like I've just been on a roller coaster.

I don't think I've been had quite so thoroughly since Blizzard announced we were getting two-headed Ogres back in Vanilla WoW.

Yeah, it's kind of a damn shame this won't be a real thing, and apparently Black Library was considering doing a series like this back in 2012 which fell through. Still, guess this really is what fandoms are for, so we can tell these sorts of stories when the big name authors can't.